2012 Pro-cycling season thread

Vaughters wrote a great piece quite a few years ago for Cycle Sport ( I think) where he went into the reasons why a young rider might dope. It was a brilliant insight into the sport and it's pressures on young riders to come up with quick results to avoid being dumped by the sport.

I quote it (roughly) whenever people want to talk about how terrible it is that sportsman 'A' doped and how could he do it when he knew it was cheating.

Anyone else remember reading it, or is it online? It's particularly true now, seeing as he's come clean, and it is obviously written from first hand experience.

[ame="http://www.scribd.com/doc/56420890/Drugs-Vaughters"]Drugs Vaughters[/ame]

From the numbers he's quoted about himself he was one of the guys who only would have got a teeny tiny bump from EPO as his HCT was at 48.5 compared to the 50 limit already, so if that's all he did without blood transfusions etc. why did he bother?